Earthquake

I was having my coffee when things started to rattle. Over the space of what seemed to be almost a minute, it built up and culminated in quite a shake before fading away.    The TV news told us that an earthquake had occurred, with an epicentre near Mansfield and certainly stronger than the mild tremors that we very occasionally feel.    I texted a colleague who happens to be at Mt Buller, who informed me that he had certainly felt it but had no damage.   A (on the other side of Melbourne) rang to tell us that her power was off so she couldn’t make coffee.   So far as we’re concerned, my first thought was the underpinning that we had done a couple of years ago; it had done its job and our house had no cracks or other ill effects.   A couple of pictures on the wall were slightly dislocated, but that seems to have been all.